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How does e2compr interact with e2fsck?

e2fsck needs special provision for e2compr so that it understands that 0xffffffff isn't a real block pointer (see section How does the kernel know which clusters are compressed?).

(If you were to try to run the normal e2fsck, it would refuse to run, because it can see in the superblock that the filesystem uses a special extension.)


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